Putin Puts Russian Nuclear Forces On High Alert As Tension Rises Over Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered his country’s nuclear-attack system to be placed on high alert because of what he described as “aggressive statements” by Western adversaries. 

The instruction means Putin has ordered Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for heightened readiness to launch, raising the possibility the Russia-Ukraine war could escalate to a nuclear war.

During a meeting with top Russian officials, Putin directed the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military’s General Staff to put its nuclear forces in a “special regime of combat duty.”

“Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country,” Putin said in televised remarks.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declared the measure part of a broad pattern of Putin escalating conflicts based on “manufactured threats.”  

“This is really a pattern that we’ve seen from President Putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don’t exist in order to justify further aggression, and the global community and the American people should look at it through that prism,” Psaki said on ABC’s “This week.

 “This is all a pattern from President Putin, and we’re going to stand up for it, we have the ability to defend ourselves, but we also need to call out what we’re seeing here from President Putin,” Psaki said.

The startling move came as street fighting broke out in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, as part of advances that appeared to be a part of a new phase of Russia’s invasion of its western neighbor. 

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